This is when the father and son reach the coast; a stranger steals a few of their supplies they go and look for the thief. ... "They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you won't face it" (McCarthy 117). Man's wife warns husband that if he doesn't migrate to safer area they're going to be killed. ... On the mattress a man lay with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. ... Cormac McCarthy displays how hunger makes people go to extraordinary lengths to cure their hunger. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As for as the human race, have we come to the point where the norm is pretty much whatever we can afford? ... "Time, love, and memory suggest an inner world, a private realm where science can't go," said Jonathan Weiner, a Pulitzer Prizewinning science writer (US News and World 126:25). ... They all agreed that the only way to save Bonnie was to amputate both her legs above her knees and her right arm to her elbow. ...

• Word Count: 1708
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? ... It [the soul] goes on enduring and remembering the things that happen to it. ... You may go one. ... You see a little body then with head and bottom, two arms on the shoulders and two legs on the hips. ... It is our mind that makes us different, makes us human, or our spirit or whatever name one gives to that power of comprehension we have. ...

• Word Count: 5369
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School